The Federal Executive Council has approved the increment of salaries of police personnel by 20 per cent.
This was made known by the Minister of Police Affairs, Maigari Dingyadi, on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council meeting which was chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Dingyadi disclosed that the review exercise will take effect from January 2022.
According to him, the review is in response to the demands made by EndSARS protesters in 2020, involving primarily improved welfare for police officers.
He said the take home pay will be enhanced through the duty tour allowance to 6 per cent of their new take home pay and an approval of N1.12 billion for payment of outstanding uninsured benefits for the period of 2013 to 2020.
Also, the FEC approved the release of N13.1 billion for payment of outstanding death benefits of 5,472 personnel for the uninsured period of 2013 to August 2021.
